• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.245-248
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• 2006

풍력터빈 풍동시험의 경우 모델 축소에 의한 레이놀즈 수 감소가 ?V력터빈 성능에 미치는 영향이 적절히 고려되어야 한다. 본 연구를 통해 수치해석과 축소모델 풍동시험을 통해 모델 축소효과를 파악하여 이를 적절히 보상하는 기법을 개발하고자 한다. 이를 위해 풍력터빈 형상 및 실물모델 시험데이터가 공개되어 있는 NREL Phase VI 모델을 표준모델로 선정하여 수치해석 및 풍동시험을 수행하였다. 풍동시험은 KARI LSWT에서 2006. 10에 수행되었으며, 블레이드 끝단 속도를 실물 모델과 일치시켰으며 시험부 유속은 $0{\sim}25m/s$, 블레이드 설치각은 3도 조건을 기준조건으로 사용하였다. 축소모델 시험결과 최대토크는 약 10% 정도 감소현상을 보이고 있다.

• New & Renewable Energy
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.54-62
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• 2007

The present paper describes the scale effect correction methods for scaled NREL Phase VI wind turbines by using CFD[computational fluid dynamics). For the corrections of wind turbine scale effect, various researches on the helicopter rotor scale effect were investigated and the feasibility study of the methods was performed to correct wind turbine scale effect. The present paper also introduces scale effect correction methods based on two dimensional lift slope. In order to test the present method, performance analyses of NREL Phase VI wind turbines under various scale conditions were carried out and new correction method was applied. Granting that the new correction method is valid only above Reynolds No. 100,000, it showed reasonable agreement between model and full scale wind turbines in the linear torque region.

• New & Renewable Energy
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• v.2 no.4 s.8
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• pp.12-18
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• 2006

풍력터빈 풍동시험의 경우 모델 축소에 의한 레이놀즈 수 감소가 풍력터빈 성능에 미치는 영향이 적절히 고려되어야 한다. 본 연구를 통해 수치해석과 축소모델 풍동시험을 통해 모델 축소효과를 파악하여 이를 적절히 보상하는 기법을 개발하고자 한다. 이를 위해 풍력터빈 형상 및 실물모델 시험데이터가 공개되어 있는 NREL Phase VI 모델을 표준모델로 선정하여 수치해석 및 풍동시험을 수행하였다. 풍동시험은 KARI LSWT에서 2006. 10에 수행되었으며, 블레이드 끝단 속도를 실물 모델과 일치시켰으며 시험부 유속은 0$\sim$25m/s, 블레이드 설치각은 3도 조건을 기준조건으로 사용하였다. 축소모델 시험결과 최대토크는 약 10% 정도 감소현상을 보이고 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.85-91
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• 2017

A wind tunnel test for 1/86 scaled down model of the NREL 5 MW offshore wind turbine was conducted to investigate the wake and flow fields. Deficit of flow speed in the wake region and variations of the turbulence intensity were measured using a hot wire anemometer at rated tip speed ratio of 11.4 m/s and a rotational speed of 1,045 rpm. According to the test results, velocity deficits along both of lateral and vertical directions were recovered within 2 rotor radii downstream from the rotating disc plane. The tip vortices effect was negligible after 5 rotor radii downstream from the rotating plane. Turbulence intensities showed maximum value around the blade tip, and decreased rapidly after one radius apart from the rotating plane, and those values were preserved until 6 rotor radii downstream.

• Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.65-73
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• 2015

This paper presents the structural model verification process of whole wind turbine blade including blade model which proposed in Part1 paper. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Phase VI wind turbine which the wind tunnel and structural test data has publicly available is used for the study. In the Part1 of this paper, the processes of structural model development and verification process of blade only are introduced. The whole wind turbine composed by blade, rotor, nacelle and tower. Even though NREL has reported the measured values, the material properties of blade and machinery parts are not clear but should be tested. Compared with the other parts, the tower which made by steel pipe is rather simple. Since it does not need any considerations. By the help of simple eigen-value analysis, the accuracy of structural stiffness and mass value of whole wind turbine system was verified by comparing with NREL's reported value. NREL has reported the natural frequency of blade, whole turbine, turbine without blade and tower only models. According to the comparative studies, the proposed material and mass properties are within acceptable range, but need to be discussing in future studies, because our material properties of blade does not match with NREL's measured values.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.57-58
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• 2012

• Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.31-40
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• 2012

This paper introduces a methodology for NREL 5MW wind turbine, which is the variable speed and variable pitch(VSVP) control system. This control strategy maximizes the power extraction capability from the wind in the low wind speed region and regulates the wind turbine power as the rated one for the high wind speed region. Also, pitch control efficiency is raised by using pitch scheduling.Torque schedule is made of torque table depending on the rotor speed. Torque control is used for vertical region in a torque-rotor speed chart. In addition to these, mechanical loads reduction using a drive train damper and exclusion zone on a torque schedule is tried. The NREL 5MW wind turbine control strategy is comprised by the generator torque and blade pitch control. Finally, proposed control system is verified through GH Bladed simulation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.201-209
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• 2011

An unsteady RANS analysis study of the 3-D flow around the NREL Phase VI horizontal axis wind turbine(HAWT) was performed using sliding mesh approach. Two different analysis models such as rotor-only and rotor with tower/nacelle were constructed to investigate the blade/tower interaction. Analysis results for the rotor with tower/nacelle were compared with the corresponding NREL's experimental data which produced fairly good validation of the present CFD model. Comparison of flows around those two models also clearly showed the blade/tower interaction even it was small for upwind configuration. Other visualization results and integrated aerodynamic loads including torque of the blade demonstrated the effective unsteady flow simulation capability of the present CFD model.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.504-507
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• 2009

The purpose of this work is to predict the low frequency aero-acoustic noise generated from the horizontal axis wind turbine, NREL Phase VI using large eddy simulation and Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings model provided in the commercial code, FLUENT. Calculated aerodynamic performances such as shaft torque and power are compared with experimentally measured value. Performance results show a good agreement with experimental data within about 0.8%. If the distance by two times is changed from 32D to 64D toward the downstream region, sound pressure level is reduced by about 6.4dB.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.56.2-56.2
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• 2011

As rotor blade of a wind turbine becomes larger to satisfy the economic efficiency for offshore wind farm, the numerical analysis considering wind profile is getting emphasized. In this paper, the study for the power characteristic of a wind turbine is carried out using NREL phase VI wind turbine applied wind profile. The experimental data of NASA Ames wind tunnel for inflow velocity 7m/s is used and the numerical result is obtained by using CFD commercial solver(FLUENT).